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Page 19 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
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| Title | An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862 |
| Author | William Wyndham Malet |
| Publisher | R. Bentley, 1863 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0608412929, 9780608412924 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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